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She was born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia by Philipp Blom (2013-04-01)
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Veronica Buckley
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In 1979 she graduated from the University of Canterbury with first class honours in French with philosophy, and was awarded a postgraduate scholarship in cultural and social history at the University of London.
Career
Before embarking on her writing career she worked as a musician, and as a technical writer and information management specialist in the Information Technology industry. Following doctoral research in Modern History at Oxford University, Buckley wrote her first scholarly biography, about Queen Christina. Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric, was published in 2004, and translated into eight languages.
lieutenant was rated one of the 20 best non-fiction books of the year by The Telegraph.
Buckley"s second book, Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV, was published by Bloomsbury in July 2008. lieutenant is a biography of Françoise d"Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, who rose from the humblest of beginnings to become the morganatic wife of the Sun King, and highly influential at his Court.
In April 2008, the first edition was recalled and reprinted because of erroneous references to a literary work. A press article in The Guardian "exposed" the error, despite the fact that it had already been corrected.
Buckley lived in Paris and Vienna, but currently lives in Los Los Angeles
Harper Perennial, London, 2005. pbk Bloomsbury, London, 2008. hbk.
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